Peter Badge

Peter Badge (with microphone) at the Zedler Prize award ceremony in Berlin (2013)

Peter Badge (* 1974 in Hamburg , Germany ) is a German photographer and honorary consul of East Timor .

Badge studied art history in Berlin and then worked as a freelance photographer for various magazines. He later began his own projects in which he portrayed well-known artists, scientists and politicians. His photo series include "Men on the Moon", "Elviswho" and "Philantropists". For his project “ Nobel Prize Winners in Portrait” (since 2000) and the order from the Klaus Tschira Foundation in Heidelberg in 2012 to photograph all Turing , Abel , Fields and Nevanlinna Prize winners, he traveled to various countries. His pictures have been shown several times in exhibitions.

On September 26, 2011, Badge was appointed the first Honorary Consul for East Timor in Germany. He got to know the country when he photographed the East Timorese Nobel Peace Prize laureate and politician José Ramos-Horta as part of his project .

Publications (selection)

• Contacts (1997).
• Heinz Rudolf Kunze: Agent provocateur , with Gérard A Goodrow (ed.) Et al. (1999).
• Oskar Sala: Pioneer of Electronic Music (2000).
• The Coracles of the World (2009).
• Yeah , with Beto Hernandez (2012).
• Masters of Abstraction. Turing, ABel, Fields, Nevanlinna (2015).
• Nobel Heroes (2017).
• Ingenious encounters: world trip to Nobel Prize winners , with Sanda Ziebal (2020)

Web links

Commons : Peter Badge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Der Tagesspiegel: The Nobel Laureate Photographer , March 20, 2015 .
• Literature by and about Peter Badge in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Steidl Verlag: Peter Badge , accessed on June 25, 2020.
2. ↑ photography-now: Peter Badge , accessed on June 25, 2020.
3. ↑ Berlin Capital Club: Business Talk - Fireside chat with Peter Badge , accessed on June 25, 2020.
4. ↑ German Embassy Jakarta: First Honorary Consul Timor-Lestes in Germany appointed ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 7, 2017. 
5. ↑ Göttinger Tagesblatt : Ex-Tageblatt photographer shows his Nobel Laureate portraits , June 26, 2012 , accessed on June 25, 2020.